Briane Green is an excellent writer. I haven't read "The Elegant Universe" but I recently picked up his "The Fabric of the Cosmos" at my local used book store and am about 2/3 of the way through it. I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in obscure things like "Bell's Theorem". Green's explanation of "spooky action at a distance" is simply the best I have ever read.

It is worth noting that you can buy a used copy of the hardcover version of this book for about $7 including shipping on Amazon. That's less that half the price you would pay for the paperback at the local Borders.

I certainly agree with all of the praise offered for “The Elegant Universe.” It was virtually my only companion during a rainy week in Virginia Beach, and I was fascinated and entertained by it from cover to cover. Green’s string theory was elegant, but it was, by definition, impossible to observe and to verify. Too bad because the rising possibilities inherent in it of alternate universes really appealed to me. It was quite soothing to think that somewhere, in one of those alternate universes, I was in Virginia Beach with the hottest babe in the world and we were indescribably happy together. :)

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He believes anything that is not in line with a 6000 year old earth or the rest of the bible to be an atheist, liberal, Nazi, communist, racist, etc (people have been called all of those by GGG or his groupies)plot.